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A Chinese Bamboo Brushpot and Large Fruit Stone Water Sprinkler: 19th century, the brushpot carved with a scene of literati playing and meditating in a mountainous landscape, H 13cm: accompanied by a polished peach-shaped water sprinkler carved out of a fruit stone, H 5.5cm £200-300
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A Chinese Blue and White Ginger Jar: 18th/19th century, decorated with medallions containing Buddhist symbols, amidst white prunus blossoms on a cracked ice blue ground, H 21.5cm £200-300
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Four 19th Century Maori Nephrite Jade Pendants/Brooches: Comprising large (47mm width) heart pendant with 9ct gold applied kia ora, two bar brooches with applied kia ora and fern design and plain war club pendant £250-350
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A Chinese Jade Pendant: With applied Chinese characters to the centre, with gilt rope edge setting for pendant, 40mm x 21mm £80-120
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Five 19th Century Maori Nephrite Jade Brooches/Pendants: Comprising two gold set claw pendants, a gold set brooch/pendant, a gold set Kia Ora heart pendant and a gold set horse shoe pendant £100-200
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Three 19th Century Maori Hei Tiki Pendants: Two figural examples (A/F), and a gold set pendant on jade club £100-200
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A Small Golden Sculpture: Standing figure in a Near/Middle Eastern style. Surmounted by tree and six birds. On a three-legged base modelled as three winged lions and three anthropomorphic masks.(tested as 23 carat gold), H 17cm £1000-1500
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A Small Chinese Tortoiseshell Round Box with Lid: 19th century, richly decorated throughout with deep carving of figures engaged in various activities in a landscape with buildings, to include figures carrying burdens, riding a horse, reading from a scroll, D 9cm £400-600
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The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories: Three-volume Limited Edition compiled by S E. Lucas. Published by Country Life Limited in 1950. Containing illustrations and descriptions of the Chinese ivory carvings collected by Sir Victor Sassoon, Bart, G. B. E. between 1915 and 1927. Signed by Victor Sassoon and Sydney Edward Lucas. Copy 69 of 250. £5000-7000
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A Chinese Famille Rose Vase: Daoguang (1821-1850) Mark and period, the bulbous body finely decorated with an interior scene of female attendants bringing tea to an old gentleman and his wife on a terrace and a garden scene of a group of young attendants and peasants entertaining the same elderly couple. The elongated neck with everted mouth rim delicately decorated with a butterfly motif; the base in light blue with red character seal of Daoguang, H 26cm £5000-8000
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Shiy De-Jinn (Xi Dejin, Chinese, 1923-1981): A river landscape with mountains beyond, watercolour, signed lower right and dated 1970, inscribed verso 'Shiy De-Jinn, Taipei, 1970', H 45cm x W 60cm £2000-3000
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A Chinese Wooden Brushpot: 18th/19th century, finely and deeply carved to represent a high relief garden scene with literati engaged in various activities. The details of trees and rocks rendered very carefully, "Feng Yunsheng ke" carver's signature on the side, H 16cm £300-500
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A Chinese Bronze Sculpture: Ming dynasty, exquisitely modelled as a sitting Guanyin. Embellished with very fine details of the hair, crown, jewellery and robe. With traces of gilt and colour throughout. Worn inscription on the back, H 25cm £800-1200
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A Chinese Carved Zitan Wood Table Screen: 18th century, with fine decoration in mother-of-pearl, ivory and hardstones on a lacquered ground to one side, representing various objects for a scholar's desk, to include flower vase, brushpot and brushes, auspicious symbols. Elegant inscription in ivory on black lacquer ground to the other side. All within a richly and carefully carved wooden frame on four feet. Possibly intended for the scholar's studio, H 59cm x W 29cm £3000-5000
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A Chinese Famille Rose Bowl: 19th century, of four-lobed form with slightly slanting foot. Decorated with flower and bird motifs to include pheasants, chrysanthemums, peonies and prunus blossoms. Tongzhi (1861-1875) mark to the base, H 7.5cm x D 19cm £200-300
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A 19th Century Anglo-Chinese Hardwood Cabinet on Later Stand: The top fitted with nine drawers and two cupboards enclosing press slides, within cushion moulded borders, on rectangular base united by stretchers, H 136cm x W 99cm x D 37cm £300-500
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Three Chinese Famille Rose Ginger Jars: To include: an 18th-century jar finely decorated with phoenix and peonies in delicate shades of pink, blue and green enamels (H 19cm); two 19th-century jars enamelled respectively with a flower, bird and butterflies motif (H 19cm) and a scene of a figure riding a lion dog and accompanied by three attendants and two bats. All three pieces with carved wooden lid and stand, H 16.5cm £400-600
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A Chinese Famille Rose Ewer: 18th century, the bulbous body finely decorated with figures engaged in leisurely pursuits in a garden. The neck embellished with delicate flower and bird motifs and small landscape scenes in iron red. Gilt around the mouth rim and spout, H 33cm £250-350
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Two Japanese Ivory Okimono: Meiji Period, to include: a peasant carrying a stick and a basket, artist's signature to the base; a peasant carrying a rake and a bundle of radishes, artist's signature to the base, both: H 19cm £200-300
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Three Persian Paintings: 19th century watercolours on paper. To include: an animated and dramatic deer hunting scene (H 25cm x W 16cm); a courtly scene with ruler on throne and attending officials (H 25.5cm x W 14.5cm). Both in a wooden frame. £200-300
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A Mirror Pair of Large Chinese Famille Rose Vases: 19th century, the baluster-shaped bodies richly and carefully decorated with bands of different motifs to include, from top to bottom, flower pots and vases with auspicious symbols, iron red dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst stylised waves and clouds, lotus flowers in a pond. The shoulders decorated with a band of iron red bats amidst stylised clouds. The neck further embellished with flowers amidst scrolls on a bright yellow background. With two applied dragon-head handles, H 64cm £2000-3000
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A Small Himalayan Bronze Figure: 14th century, in the shape of a Buddhist figure sitting in prayer on a lotus flower. On an octagonal base. Possibly part of a bigger composition and possibly Nepalese, H 14cm £800-1200
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A Small Chinese Bronze Sculpture: Ming dynasty (ca. 17th century), cast in the shape of Guanyin sitting on a lotus flower, the right hand on the knee and the left hand holding a vase, H 10.5cm £150-250
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A Pair of Red Lacquered Chinese Wedding Baskets: Decorated with gilded figural scenes, H 60cm approx £150-250
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Two Green and White Jade Peach Carvings: One with carved jade suspension with bird on peach decoration to both sides, the larger of three peaches and bird with yellow metal mount. £200-400
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Two Chinese Blue and White Prunus Blossom Vases: To include: an 18th-century vase (H 37cm) and a 19th-century vase (H 38cm). Both with similar decoration of white prunus blossoms on a cracked ice blue ground. £200-300
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Two Chinese Green Glazed Jars with Lid: 18th/19th century, the square-shaped bulbous and compressed body and round lids covered in a light green glaze with large darker spots. Each on a carved wooden base, H 21cm £200-300
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Two Chinese Famille Rose Vases: 19th century, to include: a small baluster-shaped vase decorated with lingzhi mushroom amidst flowers, with domed carved wooden lid (H 14cm); a slender baluster-shaped vase vividly enamelled with flower motifs, the domed lid surmounted with a sitting lion dog, H 38cm £150-250
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A Collection of Four Japanese Carved Netsuke: Meiji period, to include: an agate cicada carving (L 8cm); an onyx fish carving (L 8cm); two hardstone carvings in the shape of a newt and a stylised dragon (L 6cm). £150-250
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A Set of Ten Chinese Watercolours on Rice Paper: Depicting various generals and figures; together with four smaller versions of a potter and other figures £700-1000
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An early 20th Chinese Silver Rose Bowl, by Chong Woo, also stamped HONG KONG and Chinese artisans mark, circa 1910,The sides with pierced chrysanthemum decoration and vacant circular cartouche, on raised collet base engraved with presentation inscription "To J H Fisk Esq" from his leading hands as a token of respect: R.M.S Assaye 1909-10"Height 9cm, diameter 17cm. £300-500
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A Chinese 'Thousand Flowers' Vase: Of Meiping shape with high rounded shoulders tapering gently to a broad footrim; a further inset to the base with a six-character blue mark, finely enamelled with famille rose flowers on a green leaf background amongst carefully detailed locust motifs, 19th century on a period fitted wooden base, H 28cm (without base) £300-500
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A Chinese Famille Rose Water Dropper: 19th century, modelled in the elegant, sinuous shape of a lotus flower. The stem bearing the inscription "Da Qing Guangxu sanshisi nian Anhui Taihu fujin jiuzao jinian bei", commemorating the autumn manoeuvres near Lake Tai in Anhui in the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), H 9cm x L 15cm £200-300
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A Pair of Large 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Jardinières: The bodies surmounted with enamelled floral cartouches, the lips with iron red scroll designs, H 36cm x W 41cm £500-800
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A Japanese Satsuma Vase: Meiji period, carefully decorated throughout with a variety of birds, to include peacocks, cranes, ducks, cockerel and hen, etc. Maker's mark to the base, H 51cm £300-500
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A Small Chinese Wucai Jar: Possibly Ming, boldly depicting a group of literati and attendants in a garden. Wanli (1572-1582) mark to the base, H 8.5cm £300-500
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A Small Chinese Blue and White Planter: Of rectangular shape with indented corners. Enamelled with flower scrolls and a key fret border around the mouth rim. On four short feet. Qianlong (1735-1796) mark to the base, H 5cm x W 16.5cm £400-600
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A Large Chinese Wood Carving: 19th century, finely and intricately carved in the shape of a sinuous dragon. The front right paw resting on an openwork, hollow ball containing a small wooden ball, H 20cm x L 100cm £200-300
Lots 89 to 95Boningtons are delighted to offer for the first time on the international art market a selection of wood sculptures by the well-established Japanese artist Ms Kinjo Yasuko. Her production over the many years of her prolific and successful career includes sculptures in wood, stone, terracotta, bronze, glass, amber, silver and resin. Born in Tokyo in 1945,she graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (BA, MA and MPhil).She has been an art teacher and she is now lecturer at the NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) Culture Centre. Since 1969, her work has been presented at many galleries and exhibition centres in the Tokyo area, including at the prestigious Nikakai (Society of Progressive Japanese Artists) annual exhibitions. Her sculptures have been acquired across Japan by important institutions, including the Hachijo Town Hall in Tokyo and the Kuji Amber Museum in Iwate, and renowned individuals, suchas the well-known Japanese composer Dan Ikuma and the Living National Treasure Obu Shogyo. Her artwork can also be found in a number of prominent Japanese Buddhist temples, to include the Shiretoko Bishamondo, Hokkaido, the Shitaya Shrine, Tokyo, the Koseiji templeof Uji, Kyoto, and the Amidaji temple, Hakone.The pieces at Boningtons are some fine examples of her repertoire, showing the harmonious fusion of the tradition of Japanese Buddhism with sober, yet vibrant modern aesthetics.
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Kanjizai Bosatsu (Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara) standing on a double lotus flower, the right hand in Yogan-in (wish-granting) mudra and the left hand in Semui-in ("fear not") mudra. Plain boxwood with gilt crown and part of halo and painted details, H 22.5cm x W 9cm x L 5cm. £800-1200
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Kissh¯oten, female deity standing with serene expression and holding a nyoi-hoju (wish-fulfilling) jewel. Lacquer, colours and gold on wood, H 45cm x W 15cm x L 11cm £1000-2000
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Bishamonten, the chief of the four Heavenly Kings, punisher of evildoers, standing with severe expression, holding a spear in the right hand and a small pagoda in the left hand. Colours on wood, H 53cm x W 13cm x L 9cm £1000-2000
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Fudomyoo, one of the Wisdom Kings, sitting against a karura flame background, with fierce expression and holding a sword in the right hand and a rope in the left hand. Colours on wood, H 51cm x W 36cm x L 10cm £1000-2000
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Tanjoubutsu, birth of the Historical Buddha Shaka, the right hand pointing to heaven and the left hand pointing to earth and wearing a loincloth. Standing on a double lotus flower and supported on a radiating round stand. Lacquer and gold on wood, H 22.5cm x D 4.9cm; stand: D 15cm £500-1000
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Nyoirin Kannon, six-armed Goddess of Mercy, sitting on a double lotus flower in meditative position, holding attributes. Colours on katsura (cercidiphyllum japonicum, or 'wig plant') wood with gilt crown, decorations and part of halo, H 25.5cm x W 12cm x L 11cm £1500-2500
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Kinjo Yasuko (Japanese, b. 1945): A Japanese Wood Sculpture: Dainichi Nyorai, the Primordial Buddha sitting in meditative position. Colours on camphorwood with gilt face and body, H 18cm x W 13cm x L 9.8cm £500-1000
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A Chinese Famille Rose Figurine: 19th century, Representing Guanyin sitting in an elegant posture on a lotus flower with the left hand raised in shuni mudra and the right hand holding a jewel. Flanked by a perched bird on her right and a bottle on her left. The details of her flowing robes and head cover finely painted. H 13 cm £80-120
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An Impressive Modern Silver Two-Handled Punch Bowl/ Jardinière, by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1998: In the early 18th century manner, embossed with alternate convex and concave flutes/lobes, flat chased band of trailing acanthus leaves and gadrooned border, angular drop-ring handles, terminating on an oval lobed base, gilt washed interior, length handle to handle 47cm, height 21cm, approx weight 124 troy ounces, together with an electroplated King's pattern soup ladle, (2) £3000-5000
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A Victorian Silver Four-Piece Tea and Coffee Service, by Elizabeth Eaton, London 1862/3: In the classical revival manner, urn-shaped bodies with mask-capped and floral swags entwined with engraved ribbon-tied drape, and acanthus leaves below, central cartouche engraved with a crest of a guardant lion holding a wheat ear and above the motto "Gratitude" bead borders throughout, tea and coffee pots with ivory insulators, approx weight 80 troy ounces (4) £1200-1500
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A Modern Silver Gilt Cigar/Cigarette Box by Richard Jarvis & Ian Calvert, London 2005 Commemorating The Battle of Trafalgar Bicentenary: Of rectangular cushion form, cover applied with a porcelain plaque, under glass, depicting the battle within a rope-twist border, two further plaques, one depicting Nelson the other his arms and to each end with Prince of Wales plumed feathers issuing from a crown above a motto, raised on bracket feet embellished with simulated waves, H 12.5cm x W 17.5cm x L 26.5cm £2000-4000
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A Modern Silver Cigar/Cigarette Box by Richard Jarvis, of Pall Mall, London 2004: Rectangular with canted corners, cover acid etched and depicting The House of Lords' chambers, the sides further acid etched with stylised foliage in the Pugin manner centred with a rose motif, port-cullis style centre, raised on four lion motifs supporters, wood lined, H 8cm x W 17.5cm x L 23cm £2000-4000
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